This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Tripper Dungan! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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PHART CHART
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is ohhh_yeah808! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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PHART CHART
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is WorkByDrew! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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PHART CHART
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is msfatale! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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What’s a PHART CHART?
Do you make art or take photos? Ever wonder what you’re gonna do with those things? Why not turn them into PHART? (Photos+Art=PHART. Get it?) Starting today the Mercury’s Flickr group is open to art as well as photos!Every week we’ll choose a new Phart Chart Topper (the best entry of the week) from the […]
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Click-Ability
Mark Searcy (the Mercury‘s previous art director) made this rad little website that mimics the effect of image searching. It’s like going down a water slide made of pictures! It’s called This Blog Taken. Give it a try! Mark uploads new pictures daily (to insure it never gets boring). You’ve got to admit the site’s […]
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Cover Art Afterbirth
Every week the Mercury busts its’ balls hiring radical illustrators to make art that makes your crappy week a wee bit brighter. Then you wipe your ass with the fully-illustrated Mercury and never look back.That’s why it’s so shocking when readers send us emails asking, “Can I buy that illustration you guys ran last week?” […]
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This Week’s Wiener!!!
Every week the Mercury‘s Flickr pool fills up with randomly awesome picture from around town.Every week we pick a winner for the Photo Lottery from this pool.This weeks winner is an actual wiener by Hannah Westberg.This wiener speaks volumes about who we are as a people; our values, our politics, our food of choice, etc…But […]
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Vomit in 3-D
Once the vomit hit the intersection of 5th and Couch (AKA the Sneaker Blocks), everyone knew it was Skinner’s fault (my puke, but his fault). As a rule, art shows never supply 3-D glasses and beer because it makes people puke, but apparently the Mercury doesn’t care. In fact we were thrilled to supply Upper […]
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Who are the Sexiest People in Portland?
Ladies and Gentlemen of Portland: It’s time to rise up and and point your fingers at the sexiest people our radical city has to offer. We’re looking for the hottest pieces of tail in Portland for our March 12 “SEX ISSUE” and we need your help. Simply add their photo to the Mercury’s Flickr page […]
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(((Graphic Design Wizards and Wizresses)))
The Mercury has an open stool at the foot of the production throne.Call it an internship opportunity, a foot in the door or a cry for help.We’re just calling it a production internship. What will you learn?-How to magically produce a weekly newspaper.-How to magically turn words into pictures.-How to magically kern and flow text.-How […]
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Picking Art Scabs
(Let’s give a warm Blogtown welcome to local artist Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, who will be contributing coverage of visual arts and design.) Art collections hung in Victorian shared homes and bungalow punk-houses throughout Portland might reflect more of who we are as a culture then the art you’ll find in snooty-tooty galleries. These home art […]